Portable camp.



H. THIESSEN & R. LAGE.

PORTABLE CAMP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21. 1916.

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HENRY 'I'HIESSEN AND RUDOLPH LAGE, 0F DAVENPORT, IOWA.

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specification of Letters Patent. .Paten -Nov, 19, 1918.

Application filed November 21, 1916. Serial No. 132,563.

able camps, especially adapted for the use of automobile and campingparties, the same being composed of a frame and end and side walls and aroof, which are so connected as to form a rigid structure and adapted tobe disconnected or collapsed for storage and transportation.

The details of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts areas hereinafter described.

connection.

Fig. 8 is a partial plan view of one of the v panels showing the methodof reinforcing the frame.

Fig. 9 is an end view-of Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 is a partial side view showing the manner of connecting thewalls.

'Fig. 11 is an end view of Fig. 10.

In the present embodiment of the invention, a building is providedconsisting of similar end walls, and combined side-walls and roof. Eachof the end walls consists of four units which are in the form of openrectangular frames 1, and each frame has an extension 2 at its upper endwhich is beveled at one side of the unit, and the extensions 2 are ofsuch length that when 'the units of any end wall are set up, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2, a gable will be formed. One of the units in one end wallis a door, as indicated at 3, and two of the units in the opposite endwall have windows indicated at 4. Each frame is closed by a suitablesheet 5 of light flexible material, as for instance wire cloth, and theunits of each.

end wall when set up are reinforced and braced in alined position bymeans of the bars 6, secured to the tops of the frame sections or units.One of these bars is arranged at each end of the building and they areof a length to extend the full width of the end wall.

in the form of open frames 7 having a sheet 8 of light flexible materialclosing the same, and the panels of each side wall are hinged togetherin the same manner as the panels Each side wall is composed of twopanels in the end walls. The uppermost panel of each side wall is hingedto the adjacent panel 9 of the adjacent side of the roof, and the roofin the present instance, is composed of the four panels, two at eachside. These panels 9 are preferably frames covered with canvas or thelike in order that they may shed water. The adjacent roof panels arehinged together. This hinged connection shown in Figs. 4 to 7 inclusive,consists of strips 10 of flexible material, and the strips are soarranged that adjacent panels may be folded in either direction, asindicated in Fig. 7. Each panel is connected to the adjacent panel bythree hinged strips 10, one of the strips being arranged at the center.and the other two at the ends of the panel.

This arrangement permits the units to fold in either direction. Thepanels of the side wall and roof are similarly connected, each pair ofadjacent panels being connected by three strips 11, and the arrangementis the same, so that the panels may fold in either direction. Themembers of the frame of each unit are connected together by the U-shapedstrip 12, shown more particularly in Figs. 8 and 9. The outer corners ofthe side members of each frame are rounded as shown in Fig. 9, and theseU-shaped members 12 are slipped over'the ends of theside members and theadjacent ends of the adj acent end members, and are secured to both sideand end members as shown. by means of nails or screws. When the wallsare set up, the panels of the end walls and of the roof are connectedto, the edges of the side walls by means oft-he hooks 13.shown moreespecially in Figs. 10 and 11. Each of these books 13 is pivotallyconnected to the endframe as indicated at 14, and eachhook is adapted toengage a screw 15 on the adjacent panel of the side wall or roof.

We claim:

A portable building comprising end walls having a gable shape andcomposed of vertical panels or sections hinged together so that 5 theymay be folded upon each other alternately and in opposite directions,and a combined end wall and roof construction, com

prising a series of longitudinal panels of about the same width as theend wall panels 10 and approximately of the same length as the longestof the end panels, similarly hinged together side by side so that theyto the sides of the outer end wall. sections and the ends of the roofsections to the inclined ends of the end wall sections.

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